#city

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#endure #long #simplicity #taste

It’s quite odd, in a land of so many different cultures, religions, ethnicity's, languages, and faces to match them all, that my white face under a scarf should cause such confusion. For some reason, my explanation of being “white” solidifies my American-ness in their minds. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. I don’t know how to fix it. I guess I’ll just go on stumping a while longer. Maybe someday scientists will come up with a cure. ↗

— Theresa McCune

#ethnicity #hijab #islam #race #religion

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. ↗

— James Dickey

#complicity #deep #feeling #intimacy #sex

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#i #new #new york #new york city #ten

The people really are what make New York City great. ↗

— David Dinkins

#great #make #new #new york #new york city

A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. It seemed so fragile, resting there, and such a silence filled the air, the beauty of the moment caused me pain. "What more?" I thought. "There must be more." As if in answer then, I saw one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall. It trembled, then cascaded down to earth just staining gentle brown and, since then, I've felt different. That's all. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#poetry #pondering #simplicity #beauty

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

#because #better #better things #capacity #individuals

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#city #city hall #counted #course #cover

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#could #electricity #house #i #roof

We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center. ↗

— Richard Drew

#building #center #city #come #did